Energy Week #539 - 9/7/2023

Energy Week #542 - 9/28/2023

UK windpower is setting records. US energy storage will exceed 10 GW this year. Candela set a really impressive record . . .

Energy Week #541 - 9/21/2023

The world is on a 2.5°C warming trajectory. Companies with high Environmental, Social, and Governance ratings . . .

Energy Week #540 - 9/14/2023

This summer was a lot hotter than recorded before it. The Biden Administration has cancelled Arctic oil-drilling . . .

Energy Week #539 - 9/7/2023

Geothermal energy is available nearly everywhere, and interest in it is growing. Storm Idalia was deadly and caused . . .

Energy Week #538 - 8/31/2023

China has banned Japanese seafood because of radioactive water released from Fukushima. Green Mountain Power is . . .

Energy Week #537 - 8/24/2023

Wildfires plagued the US and Canada, and one of them destroyed Hawaii’s first capital, Lahaina. EDF took a nuclear . . .

Energy Week #536 - 8/17/2023

Even after all the drought, heat, floods, and wildfires, some peoople still deny climate change. No big hurricanes . . .

Energy Week #535 - 8/10/2023

July was the hottest month on record, and it was at 1.5 degrees of global warming, the limit we had hoped not to . . .

Energy Week #534 - 8/3/2023

The end of the age of oil may be in sight. The first US-built offshore substation is now standing at a New York . . .

Energy Week #533 – 7/27/2023

We might soon see steel-making with negative emissions. There is more progress in battery-making. Records for high . . .

Energy Week #532 – 7/20/2023

Oceans around Florida are hot - 97°F in some places. Climate change is threatening synchronized harvest failures. We . . .

Energy Week #531 - 7/13/2023

A new kind of glass is ten times tougher and takes half the emissions to make. June, 2023, was the hottest month on . . .

Energy Week #530 - 7/6/2023

Without solar power, the heat wave would be much worse in Texas. Graphene is being used in new battery types. One in . . .

Energy Week #529 - 6/29/2023

The sun and wind are generating more electricity in the US than coal. Cool roof technoloogy could save billions of . . .

Energy Week #528 - 6/22/2023

Global wind capacity has reached 1,000 GW. It looks like the decline of fossil fuels has begun. Tornado alley is . . .

Energy Week #527 - 6/15/2023

Warming oceans are making life difficult for fish. The US solar market is expected to triple in size over the next . . .

Energy Week #526 - 6/8/2023

Some scientists say that even a 1.5°C temperature increase might be much too much. VW’s truck subsidiary says that it . . .

Energy Week #525 - 6/1/2023

Europe is ditching short haul airlines flights in favor of rail, and France has done it already. Scottish energy giant . . .

Energy Week #524 - 5/25/2023

We can expect new global warming records in the next five years, with a new El Niño, and the cost will be high. Many . . .

Energy Week #523 - 5/18/2023

The Texas legislature is making developing renewable energy tougher. NextEra Energy is getting rid of its gas . . .

Energy Week #522 - 5/11/2023

The Ford Mustang Mach-E now has lower prices and longer range. New York State is banning natural gas for most new . . .

Energy Week #521 - 5/4/2023

Solar windows look like normal windows, but they generate electricity. Texas wants to tax electric vehicles $200 per . . .

Energy Week #520 - 4/27/2023

Tesla prices have dropped six times this year. Some cyanobacteria eat carbon dioxide, fast. New batteries might power . . .

Energy Week #519 - 4/20/2023

Coal now supplies the U.S. with less electricity than gas, renewables, or nuclear. Germany shut down the last of its . . .

Energy Week #518 - 4/13/2023

The electric Dodge Ram pickup will have a 500 mile range. Tesla has cut prices for the fifth time this year. The world . . .

Energy Week #517 - 4/6/2023

The Gulf Stream and the other ocean currents appear to headed for collapse during this century. Now they’re drilling . . .

Energy Week #516 - 3/30/2023

There has been record growth of renewable energy, but it still isn’t growing nearly fast enough. Over 50% of Spain’s . . .

Energy Week #515 - 3/23/2023

Renewables surge, but emissions increase. Wind-powered ships get another look. Farmers can increase incomes with . . .

Energy Week #514 - 3/16/2023

Amogy is converting a tugboat to run on green ammonia. The EU is pushing for a phase-out of fossil fuels. La Niña has . . .

Energy Week #513 - 3/9/2023

Iconic forests in western parks are changing in bad ways due to a warmer climate. The US Post Office ordered 9,250 EV . . .

Energy Week #512 - 3/2/2023

It snowed in L.A. while there were record highs in Ohio. There may be a better lithium-ion battery coming. An iron-air . . .

Energy Week #511 - 2/23/2023

What is called the “Doomsday Glacier” is in trouble. New York City is setting the pace on eletrifying big vehicles. A . . .

Energy Week #510 - 2/16/2023

Heat pumps are working fine in a lot of our cold weather. Europe and the United States are at odds over the massive . . .

Energy Week #509 - 2/9/2023

Vermont lawmakers are looking at energy standards to make sure the state meets its goals. Coldest windchill ever was . . .

Energy Week #508 - 2/2/2023

NextEra Energy commissioned 5 GW of renewable energy in 2022 and committed to more. Renewable energy investments in . . .

Energy Week #507 - 1/26/2023

NASA and Boeing are working on more efficient aircraft designs. An African initiative intends to build 1,200 GW (!) of . . .

Energy Week #506 – 1/19/2023

Ocean heat hit a new record for the fourth year in a row. The warmest nine years on record were all in the last nine . . .

Energy Week #505 - 1/12/2023

A wind project is to be built in Greenland. After years of severe drought, California is getting severe floods. . . .

Energy Week #504 - 1/5/2023

It has been a stunning year of growth for solar power in Europe. And installations nearly doubled in China. The US had . . .

Energy Week #503 - 12/22/2022

California has a plan to be carbon neutral by 2045. Virgin Atlantic will have a London to New York flight powered by . . .

Energy Week #502 - 12/15/2022

Some Americans are moving to areas prone to climate-based weather disasters. Climate change is driving up food prices. . . .

Energy Week #501 - 12/8/2022

In some tests, when tomatoes were grown under solar panels, their production doubled. Ford plans to increase EV . . .

Energy Week #500 - 12/1/2022

Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Germany is ending reliance on Russian gas in record time. BYD may have a . . .

Energy Week #499 - 11/23/2022

Brazil’s rainforest is nearing a tipping point, experts say. A wireless electric road will be tested in Germany. The . . .

Energy Week #498 - 11/17/2022

A 10-GW wind farm is to be built in Egypt. The top selling car in Europe is the Tesla Model Y. Hurricane Nicole was . . .

Energy Week #497 - 11/10/2022

The American Clean Power Association projects that the US may deploy 550 GW of new renewable energy projects by 2030. . . .

Energy Week #496 - 11/3/2022

GM says it will power all of its US sites with renewable energy by 2025. The price of natural gas went below zero . . .

Energy Week #495 - 10/27/2022

A zinc-based battery system could beat out lithium for some applications. Russia is bombing Ukrainian generating . . .

Energy Week #494 - 10/20/2022

The Inflation Reduction Act has spurred EV production in the US. Global wildlife populations are down 69% since 1970. . . .

Energy Week #493 - 10/13/2022

Switching to renewables could save trillions. Tesla and BYD are releasing Semis this year. The cost of solar PVs keeps . . .

Energy Week #492 - 10/6/2022

Hurrican Ian was brutal. There are plans for incredibly big batteries. Fraunhofer has a process to double the . . .

Energy Week #491 - 9/29/2022

Hurricanes Fiona, Typhoon Noru, and more – cyclonic storms are getting more powerful. Now they are making batteries . . .

Energy Week #490 - 9/22/2022

New battery technologies are coming along. Volvo Trucks is ramping up electric truck production. Mangroves help . . .

Energy Week #489 - 9/15/2022

Heat records were broken all over Europe this summer. Switching to renewable energy could pay for itself in just six . . .

Energy Week #488 - 9/8/2022

Vineyards are opening up in Sweden. Flight schools are starting to use electric airplanes. Beavers can help flight . . .

Energy Week #487 - 9/1/2022

The first hydrogen-powered train is running in Germany. California voted to ban new internal-combustion cars in 2035. . . .

Energy Week #486 - 8/25/2022

Many farmers are turning their crops under and selling their cattle because of drought. China is beating the U.S. in . . .

Energy Week #485 - 8/18/2022

Ford made the largest purchase of renewable energy in U.S. history. A study predicts a megaflood for California. A . . .

Energy Week #484 - 8/11/2022

The EU boosted its renewable energy target as part of its response to the war in Ukraine. Russian gas exports to the . . .

Energy Week #483 - 8/4/2022

Senators Manchin and Schumer made a deal with big implications for green energy. Kentucky had horrible floods. A huge . . .

Energy Week #482 - 7/28/2022

This year could be Europe’s worst ever for fires. The migratory monarch butterfly is now listed as a threatened . . .

Energy Week #481 - 7/21/2022

Renewable energy is increasingly cost competitive, even in the energy crisis. Climate change caused a major heat wave . . .

Energy Week #480 - 7/14/2022

Europe is considering replacing airplanes with high-speed rail. In the UK, electricity from offshore plants has fallen . . .

Energy Week #479 - 7/7/2022

Green ammonia may boost renewable energy. The Supreme Court has limited EPA emissions cuts, but the EPA still has . . .

Energy Week #478 - 7/1/2022

The war in Ukraine shows that solar plants are hard to destroy with missiles. German utilities say it is not possible . . .

Energy Week #477 - 6/23/2022

Energy storage additions set a record in the first quarter. Areas in New Mexico are getting 100% of their daytime . . .

Energy Week #476 - 6/16/2022

The EU Parliament voted to ban gasoline-powered cars by 2035. New South Wales is putting $1.2 billion into renewable . . .

Energy Week #475 - 6/9/2022

Chris Ramsey says he will drive a Nissan EV from the North Pole to The South Pole. Buick says it will sell only . . .

Energy Week #474 - 6/2/2022

Big oil companies are not living up to their climate pledges as they make huge profits. A judge ruled that a . . .

Energy Week #473 - 5/26/2022

Denmark is pushing to build 150 GW of North Sea windpower by 2050. The DOE is pushing for carbon dioxide removal, and . . .

Energy Week #472 - 5/19/2022

The powerful tides in the Bay of Fundy are finally generating electricity. The new reactors at Vogtle are six years . . .

Energy Week #471 - 5/12/2022

Germany is kicking the Russian oil habit. A robotic solar-powered plane could be a “pseudo satellite.” The drought is . . .

Energy Week #470 - 5/5/2022

California is moving to 100% EVs for new car sales by 2035. Major oil companies had about $900 in profits since 1993, . . .

Energy Week #469 - 4/28/2022

Tesla’s revenue was over $18 billion in the first quarter of 2022. Renewable energy is expanding rapidly in China. An . . .

Energy Week #468 - 4/21/2022

New York is expected to have over 10 GW of renewable capacity by 2030. Growing the grass called miscanthus can help . . .

Energy Week #467 - 4/14/2022

Methane emissions set a record in 2021 for the second year in a row. Banks claim to be getting tough on coal, but they . . .

Energy Week #466 - 4/7/2022

Germany is warning residents of possible gas shortages due to the war. The Ukraine has retaken Chernobyl. The . . .

Energy Week #465 - 3/30/2022

The Great Barrier Reef had another bleaching event. California’s wildfire season is starting to take up the entire . . .

Energy Week #464 - 3/24/2022

Costs of air travel are increasing due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Climate change is making bigger hailstones. . . .

Energy Week #463 - 3/17/2022

Russia is attacking Ukraine’s nuclear plants. Oil prices have surged. Half of Ukraine’s renewable capacity is . . .

Energy Week #462 - 3/10/2022

The UN is to create a plastics pollution treaty. A nuclear plant in Ukraine has been attacked and taken by Russia. The . . .

Energy Week #461 - 3/3/2022

With the Ukraine invasion, oil is over $100 per barrel. An offshore wind auction in the U.S. brought in $4.37 billion. . . .

Energy Week #460 - 2/24/2022

Iberdrola will put $10 billion into three US offshore wind farms. Gas prices hit a record high in California. Flood . . .

Energy Week #459 - 2/17/2022

Concern over the Ukraine crisis go on. The Indian state of Rajasthan signed a pact for 90 GW of renewable capacity. . . .

Energy Week #458 - 2/10/2022

There’s a small motor that’s powerful! Gas prices are high. Nuclear power is expensive. Iceland will stop whaling. MIT . . .

Energy Week #456 - 2/3/2022

Climate change will have its costs, but will cost a lot less if we deal with it now. Oil and gas leases in the Gulf of . . .

Energy Week Special #457 - NECNP Keynote Talk

George Harvey delivered the keynote talk at the 50th anniversary directors meeting of the New England Coalition on . . .

Energy Week #455 - 1/27/2022

MidAmerican has a huge new project in Iowa. Massive batteries are planned for the UK, the US, and elsewhere. Covid-19 . . .

Energy Week #454 - 1/20/2022

All of the last 45 years have had temperatures above the 20th century average. At least 40% of the Lower 48 has had 68 . . .

Energy Week #453 - 1/13/2022

Renewable energy technology is ready for us to use. Lightning is getting more common in the Arctic. A 1-GW wind farm . . .

Energy Week #452 - 1/6/2022

It’s been warm in Alaska. A bad January wildfire hit Colorado. Electric car sales are growing fast, worldwide. New . . .

Energy Week #451 - 12/30/2021

The world’s biggest offshore wind farm is producing electricity. In the US, renewable energy is ahead of coal and . . .

Energy Week #450 - 12/23/2021

The International Energy Agency is warning that net-zero goals are under threat. Sales of internal combustion cars in . . .

Energy Week #449 - 12/16/2021

A grid powered by 100% renewable sources can be quite stable, a study says. A prototype 14-MW Siemens Gamesa wind . . .

Energy Week #448 - 12/9/2021

Renewable costs less than we had thought. Shell abandoned its interest in the Cambo North Sea oilfield. With La Niña . . .

Energy Week #447 - 12/2/2021

President Biden announced release of oil from the Strategic Oil Reserves. Federal authorities gave a green light to a . . .

Energy Week #446 - 11/24/2021

Entergy is betting big on renewables instead of gas. Ford is doubling the number of EVs it expects to make in the next . . .

Energy Week #445: 11/18/2021

Building coastal marshlands can fight climate change. Financial markets may kill fossil fuels before governments do. . . .

Energy Week #444 - 11/11/2021

Banking, insurance, money managers, and others representing over $100 trillion are pushing to tackle climate change. . . .

Energy Week #443 - 11/4/2021

Fossil fuel executives testified to Congress that their products contribute to climate change. A big solar farm could . . .

Energy Week #442 - 10/28/2021

Grasslands can absorb a lot of CO₂. Florida is ditching palm trees to fight the climate crisis. California has been . . .

Energy Week #441 - 10/21/2021

There are big plans for wind farms off the US coasts. Energy will cost a lot this winter because of fuel shortages. . . .

Energy Week #440 - 10/14/2021

We can drive electricity costs down by installing renewables faster. Scientists are telling President Biden to stop . . .

Energy Week #439 - 10/7/2021

One expert said, “Nuclear is irrelevant in today’s market,” explaining why its growth is so slow compared to . . .

Energy Week #438 - 9/30/2021

Windpower is important for addressing global warming. Forests are dying because of climate change. La Niña is about to . . .

Energy Week #437 - 9/23/2021

California wildfires reached Sequoia National Park, but the big trees are protected by fire-resistant blankets around . . .

Energy Week #436 - 9/16/2021

The US DOE says we could get 40% of our electricity from solar by 2035. New York Gov. Hochul signed ban on internal . . .

Energy Week #435 - 9/9/2021

Air pollution kills more people than smoking, war, or HIV/AIDS. More people died from Storm Ida in New York than from . . .

Energy Week #434 - 9/2/2021

A gravity-based renewable energy storage tower is being funded. Tesla is reducing health costs for all of us. . . .

Energy Week #433 - 8/26/2021

Chinese wind turbine maker MingYang introduced a 16-MW wind turbine. Rain fell at Summit Station in Greenland for the . . .

Energy Week #432 - 8/19/2021

July was the hottest month on record. Renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels. A company has developed a . . .

Energy Week #431 - 8/12/2021

The US has its first electric fire truck. A California hydropower plant has shut down because the reservoir is too . . .

Energy Week #430 - 8/5/2021

Generation of electricity by renewables has passed that of coal and nuclear. Investors want the SEC to disclose . . .

Energy Week #429 - 7/29/2021

It turns out we might have more lithium than we need. Renewable energy was up in the first half of 2021. Fires . . .

Energy Week #428 - 7/22/2021

The DOE is working on pushing the cost of batteries down, and so are Toyota and Panasonic. Wildfires in the West are . . .

Energy Week #427 - 7/15/2021

The heat wave in the US and Canada was ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming, and the West is in a vicious . . .

Energy Week #426 - 7/8/2021

The West Coast is to be carbon free by 2045. The International Energy Administration issued a “heartening” report. . . .

Energy Week #425 - 7/1/2021

Climate change could affect timing for Old Faithful. A newly discovered species of bacteria offers hope of carbon . . .

Energy Week #424 - 6/24/2021

GM will invest $35 billion in electric vehicles by 2025. The drought in the West is really, really bad and there is no . . .

Energy Week #423 - 6/17/2021

Ohio will have the biggest solar array outside of China. Investors with $41 trillion in assets want climate action . . .

Energy Week #422 - 6/10/2021

Buying a Tesla police car saved a lot of money for Westport, Connecticut. Ørsted plans to put $57 billion into . . .

Energy Week #421 - 6/3/2021

Activist investors have ousted two Exxon board members, replacing them with their own picks. The Colorado River is . . .

Energy Week #420 - 5/27/2021

Ford’s F-150 Lightning has created quite a stir! Offshore windpower is being developed in the US, including off the . . .

Energy Week #419 - 5/20/2021

Paris may ban through traffic in some major city areas. An eighth grader could have hacked the Colonial Pipeline. Due . . .

Energy Week #418 - 5/13/2021

Two huge batteries are to be built in California. Vermont Electric Plans For Carbon Neutrality By 2023. China has 895 . . .

Energy Week #417 - 5/6/2021

Renewable energy is surprisingly cheap, and there is a lot of it to be had. RMI has a pathway to limiting warming to . . .

Energy Week #416 - 4/29/2021

Joe Biden announced a 52% cut in emissions by 2030. California is phasing out fracking. Texas is building a lot of . . .

Energy Week #415 - 4/22/2021

The U.S. offshore wind effort could create 77,000 jobs. JPMorgan is deploying $2.5 trillion to fight the climate . . .

Energy Week #414 - 4/15/2021

Texas is getting a 500-MW solar project. We are getting another active hurricane season. The Colorado River basin is . . .

Energy Week #413 - 4/8/2021

President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has a lot in it. Evidence that melting glaciers could cross tipping . . .

Energy Week #412 - 4/1/2021

Talk about a light electric motor! MIT is looking at the falling cost of batteries, down 97% since 1991. The leader of . . .

Energy Week #411 - 3/25/2021

A 15 mile wide "living wall" is being built to stop desertfication south of the Sahara. Audi is giving up development . . .

Energy Week #410 - 3/18/2021

Autonomous tractors are in our future. We might have boats fueled entirely by the sun and wind (wind-powered boat - . . .

Energy Week #409 - 3/11/2021

Morgan Stanley says the oil industry will become worthless. New York has new rules to streamline renewable energy . . .

Energy Week #408 - 3/4/2021

We have more on Texas – it’s about lack of preparedness. Renewables are ahead of coal and nuclear power. EVs are at . . .

Energy Week #407 - 2/25/2021

It has been chaos in Texas because of the cold snap, with a lot of blame going around. Natural gas prices in Texas . . .

Energy Week #406 - 2/18/2021

Vestas set a new record for the biggest offshore wind turbine. The opportunity for investment in renewable energy is . . .

Energy Week #405 - 2/11/2021

South Korea wants to put many billions of dollars into offshore windpower. Ford will put $29 billion into EVs. One . . .

Energy Week #404 - 2/4/2021

President Biden has been signing executive orders. A 10,000-MW solar farm is moving ahead in Australia. GM will make . . .

Energy Week #403 - 1/28/2021

President Biden is acting on environmental issues. China added 72 GW of windpower last year. Bogotá, Columbia now has . . .

Energy Week #402 - 1/21/2021

New York has big energy plans, including a 2.5-GW offshore wind project. Floating solar PVs are being tested in rough . . .

Energy Week #401 - 1/14/2021

States and cities are driving initiatives on climate change. Elon Musk is the world’s richest person. This year is . . .

Energy Week #400 - 1/7/2021

GE has a 14-MW wind turbine. Japan is eliminating gas-powered cars by the mid 2030s. So is Massachusetts. Scientists . . .

Energy Week #399 - 12/23/2020

A McKinsey & Company report shows how we can get to net-zero emissions at net-zero cost. BYD delivered 246 electric . . .

Energy Week #398 - 12/17/2020

In the last 12 months, many coal miners have lost their jobs. We have advances coming in solid state batteries. Aptera . . .

Energy Week #397 12/10/2020

Records for amounts of energy storage being installed are being smashed. We are at a point where climate change really . . .

Energy Week #396 - 12/3/2020

Italian utility Enel is budgeting $190 billion for renewable energy over ten years. The world seems to be chasing the . . .

Energy Week #395 - 11/25/2020

It's been a great year for US renewable energy. Seaweed can be good to eat. Europe has seen huge increases in electric . . .

Energy Week #394 - 11/19/2020

An Australian mining company plans to install enough wind turbines to provide 500% of the country's energy needs. . . .

Energy Week #393 - 11/12/2020

Europeans are working on an annual €100 billion green hydrogen economy by 2025. Agriculture works beneath solar . . .

Energy Week #392 - 11/5/2020

Hurricane Zeta caused Louisiana’s seventh evacuation of the season. Renewables are dominating the European recovery . . .

Energy Week #390 - 10/29/2020

An aggressive move to 100% renewables could save Americans billions. UBS is predicting price parity for EVs in 2024. . . .

Energy Week - Special on SEON's Home Tour

The Sustainable Energy Outreach Network is hosting an virtual tour of area homes that are noteworthy for their energy . . .

Energy Week #389 - 10/22/2020

There has been a “staggering rise” in the number of natural disasters. A new satellite will measure the ocean levels . . .

Energy Week - 10/15/2020

Volvo is making electric fire trucks. The Icebreaker wind farm on Lake Erie is no longer subject to nighttime . . .

Energy Week – 10/8/2020

It is reported that Tesla is starting to use LiFePO₄ batteries. China has a 2.2-GW solar+storage facility. Exxon’s . . .

Energy Week – 10/1/2020

Tesla’s Battery Day has a lot of takeaways. California’s wildfires are enormously destructive. We are in climate . . .

Energy Week 9/24/2020

Hurricane Sally hit Florida. Scientific American endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in 175 years. . . .

Energy Week – 9/17/2020

BP is calling for emissions reductions and is going into renewable energy. Wildlife are in catastrophic decline across . . .

Energy Week #388 - 9/10/2020

Offshore wind giant Ørsted is getting into solar power and will sell electricity to ExxonMobil (What‽). Bee the Change . . .

Energy Week #387 - 9/3/2020

China is far ahead of the rest of the world for renewable energy. Hurricane Laura hit Cameron Parish, Louisiana. . . .

Energy Week #386 - 8/27/2020

California wildfires cover more acres of land than Rhode Island does. Bad policy, not renewables, caused a blackout in . . .

Energy Week #385: 8/20/20

Cheap electric cars are getting to be cheaper than gas-powered cars in the UK. Use of coal for generating electricity . . .

Energy Week #384 - 8/13/2020

Covid-19 is bankrupting oil & gas companies. Projections are for over 200 gigawatts of offshore wind plants by 2030. . . .

Energy Week #383 - 8/6/2020

For every electric bus made in America, several hundred are made in China. Flooding from sea level rise could cost . . .

Energy Week #382 - 7/30/2020

Tesla’s new Gigafactory will be in Texas. Our future may include underground farming. Renewable energy financing is up . . .

Energy Week #381: 7/23/2020

Long term fossil fuels investments have lost money. FERC is projecting a net decline in fossil fuels capacity. A third . . .

Energy Week #380 - Extra: How Are We Doing With Covid-19?

There are only four countries that have populations over 20 million and higher death rates from Covid-19 than the . . .

Energy Week #379: 7/16/2020

Hydrogen is getting to be a big deal. A report says fossil fuels can't be saved. A building in India has solar panels . . .

Energy Week #378: 7/9/2020

Facebook seems to be allowing misinformation but blocking fact checking. US Renewables produced 27% more electricity . . .

Energy Week #377: 6/25/2020

Goldman Sachs sees $16 trillion being invested in renewables by 2030. A BP report says global renewable energy growth . . .

Energy Week #376: 6/18/2020

Solar installations in the US are expected to grow despite the pandemic. Tesla became the world’s biggest car company, . . .

Energy Week #375: 6/11/2020

The EPA is trying to block the states’ rights to protect their water from pipelines. It was the hottest May on record. . . .

Energy Week #374: 6/4/2020

The coal industry collapse continues. The world has its first electrically powered ocean-going tanker. Some polar ice . . .

Energy Week #373: 5/28/2020

Renewables have overtaken fossil fuels in the UK. Rain forests might stop absorbing CO₂, if the global temperatures . . .

Energy Week #372: 5/21/2020

Batteries are changing everything. Renewables are expected to generate more electricity than coal in the US this year. . . .

Energy Week #371: 5/14/2020

A new record wholesale solar price was set at 1.35¢/kWh. The oceans have record heat, and that means worse storms this . . .

Energy Week #370: 5/7/2020

Covid-19 might wipe out demand for fossil fuels. One reactor at Indian Point closed permanently. Oil bankruptcies are . . .

Energy Week #369: 4/30/2020

Prices for West Texas Intermediate oil fell to minus $40 per barrel. The US Supreme Court backed applying Clean Water . . .

Energy Week #368: 4/23/2020

It looks like the mega-drought is set to continue. HyperPower has a little, bitty, 1,340 HP motor. China is set to . . .

Energy Week #367: 4/16/2020

Oil is being stored in tankers sitting at anchor because there is nowhere else to put it. OPEC+ came to an agreement . . .

Energy Week #366: 4/9/2020

Some analysts say the price of crude oil could drop below zero (really!). Researchers say much of the ocean life could . . .

Energy Week #365: 4/2/2020

A federal judge ruled that Dakota Access pipeline permits were invalid US coal exports declined in 2019. BYD has a new . . .

Energy Week #364: 3/26/2020

Renewable fuels will soon be competitive with fossil fuels. The climate is changing so much that historical data is no . . .

Energy Week #363: 3/19/2020

$1 trillion worth of coal-burning plants could be replaced with renewable energy at lower cost. The California grid . . .

Energy Week #362: 3/12/2020

Europe had the warmest winter on record. Germany got over 60% of its electricity from renewable sources in February. . . .

Energy Week #361: 3/5/2020

A 1,930-MWh battery project has been approved for California. Shell is considering a 10-GW offshore windfarm just for . . .

Energy Week #360: 2/27/2020

Rising ocean levels cause daily floods at the Tidal Basin in Washington DC. We could see a third of all species become . . .

Energy Week #359: 2/20/2020

Cars cost residents of Massachusetts $64.1 billion each year. A third of fossil fuels assets may become stranded. . . .

Energy Week #358: 2/13/2020

CO₂ Emissions are down in Europe and flat worldwide. Exxon’s market value is crumbling. Trump is withholding money for . . .

Energy Week #357: 2/6/2020

UPS ordered 10,000 electric delivery vehicles. Renewables are set to overtake natural gas. Fires threaten people on . . .

Energy Week #356: 1/30/2020

Tesla now has the second highest market value of any car company in the world. Finland will try to be carbon neutral . . .

Energy Week #355: 1/23/2020

Microsoft says it will draw down all its historic emissions. The only US uranium producer laid off a third of its . . .

Energy Week #354: 1/16/2020

Tesla is the most valuable car company ever. 2019 was the second hottest year ever. Australia burns, the Arctic melts, . . .

Energy Week #353: 1/9/2020

Fires are still horrible in Australia, and they are not expected to get better soon. Oil and gas companies want to use . . .

Energy Week #352: 1/2/2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wants electricity from renewables to have a minimum cost so fossil fuels can . . .

Energy Week #351: 2019 Year in Review

A review of the year, 2019, from Energy Week with George Harvey and Tom Finnell.

Energy Week #350: 12/19/2019

Greta Thunberg was Time’s Person of the Year. COP25 fizzled badly; its big news was about protests. Natural gas can be . . .

Energy Week #349: 12/12/2019

A system with 1,190 MW of solar and 590 MW of storage was approved for Nevada. Flooding from atmospheric rivers costs . . .

Energy Week #348: 12/5/2019

All VW racing cars will be EVs. In Japan, the Onagawa nuclear plant has a 29-meter (95-foot) seawall. We are hitting . . .

Energy Week #347: 11/27/2019

A report says fossil fuels keep growing, but others say natural gas is in decline and coal is dying. Electricity from . . .

Energy Week #346: 11/21/2019

Los Angeles is buying 130 electric buses. Venice is flooding. There are still big fires in Australia. A wind-powered . . .

Energy Week #345: 11/14/2019

Investors are dumping oil stock. A big fracker is going bust. Wind and solar beat coal and nuclear on costs. The Fed . . .

Energy Week #344: 11/7/2019

Renewable energy could save trillions of dollars. Rising seas are threatening more people than we thought. The . . .

Energy Week Extra with Abby Mnookin and Sonia Silbert - #343

Guests Abby Mnookin and Sonia Silbert talk about 350Vermont, the imperitives of dealing with climate change and social . . .

Energy Week #342: 10/31/2019

Air quality is getting worse in the U.S. There are horrible fires in California. Tesla is the biggest US auto maker by . . .

Energy Week #341: 10/24/2019

Insurance companies are starting to refuse to cover fossil fuels operations. Donald Trump decided that the next G7 . . .

Energy Week #340: 10/17/2019

Elizabeth Warren has a “Climate Justice” proposal. Ex-officers of the EPA want its use of its authority investigated. . . .

Energy Week #339: 10/10/2019

A power line is to run from Ireland to France. PacifiCorp will install 7 GW of renewable capacity by 2025. California . . .

Energy Week #338: 10/3/2019

Big offshore wind farms are being built and brought online. A new UN report says sea levels are rising faster than . . .

Energy Week #337: 9/27/2019

The Trump administration is fighting California, and 23 states are fighting back. The world had a climate strike, and . . .

Energy Week #336: 9/19/2019

Renewable energy is starting to out-compete natural gas. Ocean level rise is happening faster than most people . . .

Energy Week #335: 9/12/2019

Hurricane Dorian was awful. The Democrats had a Climate Town Meeting. We are adding renewable energy but missing . . .

Energy Week #334: 9/5/2019

Greta Thunberg arrived in New York and is not putting up with bullies. Coal continues its death spiral. Investors are . . .

Energy Week #333: 8/29/2019

China is growing its renewable capacity. Bernie has a $16.3 trillion plan. The Amazon is burning. Mark Jacobson is . . .

Energy Week #332: 8/22/2019

Greta Thunberg is crossing the ocean on a sail boat. Plastics are found in rain and snow. Solar power is cheaper than . . .

Energy Week #331: 8/15/2019

The UN says the shipping industry must go carbon neutral to survive. Tesla is selling a lot of cars. An oil crash may . . .

Energy Week #330: 8/8/2019

Climate change made Europe’s heat waves much worse. Portugal got a solar bid of 1.644¢/kWh. Germany wants to replace . . .

Energy Week #329: 8/1/2019

Weeds could save the world. An Oklahoma co-op has the largest US hybrid energy farm. Europe is getting scorched again . . .

Energy Week #328: 7/25/2019

It was the hottest June ever recorded. New York made the largest renewable energy procurement at 1.7 GW. Australia’s . . .

Energy Week #327: 7/18/2019

Of worldwide growth of fossil fuels, 98% is in the U.S. Los Angeles has a deal for solar power at 1.997¢/kWh for the . . .

Energy Week #326: 7/11/2019

It was the hottest June ever. Parts of India are likely to become uninhabitable. Restoring forests could draw down a . . .

Energy Week #325: 7/3/2019

The US got more electricity from renewables than from coal for a month, the first time that happened. New York City . . .

Energy Week #324: 6/27/2019

A new Tesla was chopped to make a pickup truck. Demand for gas-powered cars is falling in the U.S., as Tesla sales . . .

Energy Week #323: 6/20/2019

Florida has legalized driverless cars. An 84-year-old drove a Tesla to the Arctic Ocean. Greenland lost two billion . . .

Energy Week #322: 6/13/2019

The US energy storage market is up 232% in the first quarter, from last year. GE lost almost $200 billion betting on . . .

Energy Week #321: 6/6/2019

The Trump administration says fracked gas is made up of “Freedom Molecules.” China might cut exports of rare earth . . .

Energy Week #320: 5/30/2019

Students staged another worldwide strike. Half the new buses in the world are electric, and nearly all electric buses . . .

Energy Week #319: 5/23/2019

Offshore wind farms got overwhelming approval in the Connecticut House of Representatives. Washington Governor Jay . . .

Energy Week #318: 5/16/2019

The UK has gone without coal for days, but Ireland has gone longer. The Three Mile Island nuclear plant will close. . . .

Energy Week #317: 2/9/2019

The UK declared that we are in a climate emergency. Green Mountain Power plans to have 100% renewable energy by 2030. . . .

Energy Week #316: 5/2/2019

A proposed gas-fired plant in Indiana failed to get permits because the utility had not considered less expensive . . .

Energy Week #315: 4/25/19

Greta Thunberg met Pope Francis. Central banking regulators warn banks to get real about climate change. Bernie says . . .

Energy Week #314: 4/18/19

Farmland and solar panels make a good match, for both. Washington state is going 100% renewable. Green Mountain Power . . .

Energy Week #313: 4/11/19

Tesla sales are up 110% for the first quarter. CO₂ is at the highest level in 3 million years. Harbour Air is will . . .

Energy Week Extra #312 : Microgrid Working Group

This is a meeting of the Brattleboro Energy Committee's Microgrid Working Group. It starts with an explanation for . . .

Energy Week #311: 04/04/19

The world's largest battery may be built in Florida. Deutsche Telecom has increased its renewables goal from 20% by . . .

Energy Week #310: 03/28/19

ExxonMobil could lose privileges with the EU parliament. The Navaho ended a bid to save a coal-burning power plant and . . .

Energy Week #309: 03/21/19

The Trump administration concedes that coal is collapsing. Students went on climate strike worldwide. A huge coal . . .

Energy Week #308: 03/14/19

More states are going to 100% renewable energy. Industrial consumers in Pennsylvania oppose a nuclear bailout there. . . .

Energy Week #307: 03/07/19

Voters decide Lake Erie has legal rights. Bills for 100% renewable energy are put forward in several states. There are . . .

Energy Week #306: 02/28/19

Renewable energy beats nuclear for carbon reduction. There are electric cars in our future. Bernie is running on a . . .

Energy Week #305: 02/21/19

Los Angeles is canceling gas-fired power plants. Chicago, with plenty of access to nuclear plants, is going 100% . . .

Energy Week #304: 02/14/19

We are on track for a 3°C temperature rise by 2100, the UN says. The Green New Deal has been released. New car . . .

Energy Week #303: 02/07/19

A huge solar+battery project is going into New York state. A polar vortex does not prove climate change is not . . .

Energy Week #302: 01/31/19

Green companies consistently outperform non-green peers. An all-renewable grid is superior to one with mixed . . .

Energy Week #301: 01/24/19

Business leaders say climate is their biggest threat. Keene, NH, is going 100% renewable. Idaho's Republican governor . . .

Energy Week #300: 01/17/19

Over 600 groups back the Green New Deal. Vermont Yankee has been sold for decommissioning. Oceans are warming faster . . .

Energy Week #299: 01/10/19

Tesla is crushing sales records. GM has sold over 200,000 electric vehicles. More coal-fired power plants were closed . . .

Energy Week #298: 01/03/19

Arctic temperatures are rising. New Jersey wind farms are moving ahead. GMO plants might clean the air. Greenfield has . . .

Energy Week #297: Special on AllEarth Rail

Guest Nick Charyk tells us about a passenger rail startup in Vermont. AllEarth Rail is the brainchild of David . . .

Energy Week #296: 12/20/18

Climate change is on track for 3ºC. Two US utilities are going to 0% fossil fuels. US emissions are rising. Companies . . .

Energy Week #295: 12/13/18

Carbon emissions hit a record high. Solar installs worldwide surpass fossil fuels'. Batteries installations are . . .

Energy Week #294: 12/6/18

About 40% of the world's coal plants are unprofitable. It looks like we could be at the brink of climate catastrophe. . . .

Energy Week #293: 11/29/18

An oil shortage is coming, according to the UN's International Energy Agency. The 4th National Climate Assessment says . . .

Energy Week #292: 11/21/18

Developers bid on 350 MW of offshore windpower for Rhode Island. AES has committed to a 70% reduction in carbon . . .

Energy Week #291: 11/15/18

Voters rejected initiatives to limit fossil fuel use. Keystone XL was halted again. Replacing coal with renewables . . .

Energy Week #290: 11/08/18

Jobs will be created in southern New England with offshore wind farms. The Supreme Court is not blocking the Climate . . .

Energy Week #289: 11/01/2018

A lawsuit says Exxon misled its investors about dangers of climate change. Solar systems are being installed in . . .

Energy Week #288: 10/25/18

US emissions fell as coal plants closed. Climate Kids lawsuit is on hold. Switching away from fossil fuels could save . . .

Energy Week #287: 10/18/18

Denmark will ban cars with internal combustion engines. Global warming made Hurricane Michael strong. Wind and solar . . .

Energy Week #286: 10/11/18

Mexico could go to 100% renewables to save money. The DOE wants to subsidize coal. Wind power does not cause global . . .

Energy Week #284: 10/4/18

Battery installations are growing far faster than the industry expected. Renewables are projected to grow, while other . . .

Energy Week #283: 09/27/18

The natural gas industry may be blindsided by renewables. Renewable generators survived Hurricane Florence much better . . .

Energy Week: #282, 9/20/2018

North Carolina is paying the price of climate denial. Dozens of explosions and fires happened in Massachusetts because . . .

Energy #281: 9/13/18

The administration's coal-friendly power plan will hurt people's health. There is a lot of money to be made, and a lot . . .

Extra with Guy Payne

Guy Payne joins the cast of Energy Week.

Energy Week #280, 9/6/18

The Hoover Dam could be converted to store energy. Tesla batteries saved two Australian states during a power . . .

Energy Week #279, 8/30/18

Windpower is doing well and may do better in the U.S. Sweden will reach its 2030 renewables goals in 2018. Climate . . .

Energy Week #278, 8/23/18

We are not prepared for climate change. The US East Coast has more offshore wind potentialthan we need. Students' . . .

Energy Week #277, 8/16/18

Wind and solar power do not need a lot of water, and that is important. Renewable energy companies are having a hard . . .

Episode #276: August 9, 2018

Impelled by drought and heat, one California wildfire is the worst in the state history. The New York Times has . . .

Energy Week Extra: with Valerie Stuart

Valerie Stuart, representing Brattleboro's District 1 in the Vermont House of Representatives, talks about the state's . . .

Energy Week #274: 08/02/18

Environmental protections are evaporating under the current administration. China is extending its lead over the US. . . .

Energy Week #273: 07/26/18

We have a trade war. UK emissions have not been lower since Victoria was queen. Scientists found the human . . .

Energy Week #272: 07/19/18

Bhutan is going for negative net carbon emissions. We have seen record heatwaves, worldwide. China and the EU have . . .

Energy week #271: 07/12/18

Sweden will reach its 2030 climate target this year. Trump's plan to save coal could kill one person for every two . . .

Energy Week #270: 7/5/18

Scientists are not finding support for the idea that human health is negatively affected by wind turbines. A new kind . . .

Energy Week #269: 6/28/18

Solar tariffs have gone up. A plant to make steel without fossil fuels is being built. Some conservatives want a . . .

Energy Week #268: 6/21/18

VW is hit with more fines over diesel emissions cheating. Solar energy is cheaper despite tariffs. The Boring company . . .

Energy Week #267: 6/14/18

The United States is subsidizing fossil fuels. China is offering less support for solar power. Pope Francis appealed . . .

Energy Week #266: 6/7/18

MidAmerican will be the first large U.S. utility to have 100% renewable electricity. AT&T has a goal of zero waste. . . .

Energy Week #265: 5/31/18

New Jersey committed to 3,500 MW of offshore wind power. Massachusetts and Rhode Island both awarded contracts for . . .

Energy Week: 5/24/18 (#264)

For 400 consecutive months, which is over 33 years, the earth’s temperature has been above average. The National Park . . .

Energy Week: 5/17/18

All new houses in California will have solar systems. Battery maker SimpliPhi had a blockbuster year. Tourism has big . . .

Energy Week: 5/10/18

Vermont state and Federal subsidies for renewable energy are down. Carbon dioxide is at 410 ppm. In the US, renewables . . .

Energy Week: 5/3/18

Fossil fuels continue to decline. China is leading in manufacture of electric vehicles. North Korea is dealing on . . .

Energy Week: 4/26/18

The UK went without coal for days. The most powerful wind ever turbine has been installed at Aberdeen. Companies are . . .

Energy Week: 4/19/18

Solar and wind with storage are starting to beat gas. The are beating nuclear soundly. The Gulf Stream has slowed a . . .

Energy Week: 4/12/2018

Google says it is 100% renewable. Apple says it is also. The EPA is rolling back fuel efficiency standards. The Trump . . .

Energy Week: 4/5/2018

The cost of renewable energy just keeps going down. FirstEnergy is closing its three nuclear plants; it is also . . .

Energy Week: 3/29/18

Congress is preserving renewable support, sort of. Chevron believes in climate change. So does BP, which wants a . . .

Energy Week: 3-22-18

Nanawood is coming. Massachusetts has $1.4 billion for climate change preparedness. The Liberal Party, which does not . . .

Energy Week: 3/15/18

China has taken a growing lead over the US for renewable energy. Weather threats are growing. Young Republicans are . . .

Energy Week: 3/8/18

There have been heatwaves in the winter Arctic, as Europe was in the deep freeze. Trump's attacks on foreign imports . . .

Energy Week Extra: SEON's Weatherization Program

SEON director Guy Payne talks about SEON's Weatherization Program, which will be at the Strolling of the Heiffers in . . .

Energy Week: 3/1/18

Europe may be cold, but the Arctic is far too warm. New Hampshire's moose and loons are in trouble. The Asia-Pacific . . .

Energy Week: 2/22/18

The US Director of National Intelligence warned the Senate about "abrupt" climate change. The first floating wind farm . . .

Energy Week: 2/15/18

We lost 9,800 jobs in the solar industry in 2017, and 232 of these were in Vermont. Windpower is the second biggest . . .

Energy Week: 2/8/18

New Hampshire rejected the Northern Pass. An ordinary man gave his village cheap and reliable power. Tesla and South . . .

Energy Week: 2/1/18

Organizations are working to reduce the effects of the tariff on solar panels, but Central Maine Power is going ahead . . .

Energy Week: 1/25/18

Climate change will be before town meetings in Vermont. Norway will switch to electric planes for some routes. Climate . . .

Energy Week: 1/18/18

China is dealing with pollution, and so is London. Of fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewable resources, renewables . . .

Energy Week: 1/11/18

We are in trouble. The seas are rising, but its oxygen levels are falling. Cocoa plants are likely to become extinct . . .

Energy Week: 1/4/18

2017 set a number of weather records. California's wild fires continued. Congress is making Puerto Ricans pay taxes . . .

Energy Week: 12/21/17

Natural gas is beginning to lose ground. Nuclear power is too costly. The Republicans passed a tax plan that Democrats . . .

Energy Week: 12/14/17

GE is cutting jobs overseas. There are more wildfires in California, and they are bad. Companies are rebuilding Puerto . . .

Energy Week: 12/7/17

The last coal mine in the Ruhr Valley is closing. Tesla's record-breaking battery is putting power on the grid in . . .

Energy Week: 11/30/17

A new record price has been set for solar electricity in Mexico - 1.77¢/kWh. The energy storage market is set to . . .

Energy Week: 11/22/17

At COP23, 25 countries joined an alliance to end the use of coal. Elon Musk introduced us to a new truck and a new . . .

Energy Week: 11/16/17

COP23 is underway in Bonn, and most Americans are represented by state and local governments, but the official US . . .

Energy Week: 11/9/17

PetroChina has lost $800 billion in market value. The “War on Coal” is over, but coal is still losing. A cellular . . .

Energy Week: 11/2/17

Organic Valley will be 100% renewably powered. NextEra has a number of very large solar sites planned in New . . .

Energy Week: 10/26/17

Puerto Rico's grid is being rebuilt by Tesla and others, but one company that had two employees when the hurricane hit . . .

Energy Week: 10/19/17

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to “withdraw” the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, but a lot of companies and . . .

Energy Week: 10/12/17

The American Wind Energy Association is endorsing market-based energy solutions. Energy Secretary Rick Perry wants to . . .

Energy Week Extra: SEON's Sustainable Home Tour and More

SEON director Guy Payne tells us about SEON's Annual Sustainable Home Tour, which will take place on October 14th. Guy . . .

Energy Week: 10/5/17

Rick Perry's DOE wants to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. The fossil fuels industry is costing the US about $240 . . .

Energy Week: 9/28/17

Nicaragua will sign the Paris Climate Accord, leaving only the US and Syria out of it. San Francisco and Oakland . . .

Energy Week: 9/21/17

Hurricane Harvey is leading to lawsuits over climate change damages. Kodiak Island has a lot to teach us. Species are . . .

Energy Week: 9/14/17

France is phasing out fossil fuels. Scotland is phasing out fossil fueled cars by 2032. A 20-MW solar array may go up . . .

Energy Week: 9/7/17

Hurricane Harvey was horrible. A new ship is installing floating wind turbines. Farmers are making money harvesting . . .

Energy Week: 8/31/17

Exxon's bluff calling for critics to prove they downplayed climate change has been called. An MIT study said 200,000 . . .

Energy Week: 8/24/17

The US has lost about half its wheat crop because of drought in the upper Midwest. The Rocky Mountain Institute says . . .

Energy Week Extra: Hempfully Green 8/17/17

Hempfully Green Healing House Inc founding partner Emily Peyton joins George and Tom for a special Energy Week Extra . . .

Energy Week: 8/17/17

Canadian oil workers put out of work by industry declines are finding jobs in wind power. Wildfires are a growing . . .

Energy Week: 8/10/17

Climate change will damage crops more than expected. Los Angeles County is replacing its buses with electric models. . . .

Energy Week: 8/3/17

The country's largest wind farm is being built in Oklahoma. Royal Dutch Shell is making itself fit for lower oil . . .

Energy Week: 7/27/17

Major transmission company Transgrid says 100% renewable energy is both feasible and affordable. Vermont Governor Phil . . .

Energy Week: 7/20/17

Opponents of the Keystone XL pileline are blocking it with solar panels. The world's largest solar array is being grid . . .

Energy Week: 7/13/17

Big American car makers are selling more electric cars. Morgan Stanley predicts big reductions in global power sector . . .

Energy Week: 7/6/17

Construction of a coal-burning power plant with carbon capture has been stopped because it was $3.6 billion over . . .

Energy Week: 6/29/17

Vermont will keep working to meet the Paris Climate Agreement, along with numerous other states. ExxonMobil, Stephen . . .

Energy Week: 6/22/17

Maasai women have broadened their product lines beyond installing PVs on thatched roofs. Oil revenues remain low. DONG . . .

Energy Week: 6/15/17

States and cities are taking up meeting the Paris Climate Agreement without the federal government. The cost of . . .

Energy Week 6/8/17

Donald Trump said the US will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, giving up US leadership on energy and climate . . .

Energy Week: 6/1/17

Donald Trump has been trying to keep up viewer ratings by delaying decisions on staying in the Paris Climate . . .

Energy Week: 5/25/17

Solar plus batteries has set a new record for low price in New Mexico at 4.5¢/kWh; this is lower than the price of the . . .

Energy Week: 5/18/17

Hanover, NH, is going 100% renewable. Rex Tillerson has signed a document asserting the importance of climate change. . . .

Energy Week: 5/11/17

Nuclear and fossil fuels are fighting over subsidies and tax credits. Trump is getting a lot of advise from a lot of . . .

Energy Week: 5/4/17

About 50% of the biggest US companies have renewable energy targets. Oil discoveries are at their lowest levels since . . .

Energy Week: 4/27/17

Eos has super low cost batteries - if you order five years early. Vermont's renewable energy is second only to . . .

Energy Week: 4/20/17

A German company bid to put in an offshore windfarm with a subsidy of zero. Nuclear power's problems grow. EPA chief . . .

Energy Week: 4/13/17

States, cities, businesses, scientists, and the general public are taking up the slack on climate change. A coal . . .

Energy Week: 4/6/17

Vermont's biggest solar array so far has been approved. Iowa has low electric prices because of wind power. Leading . . .

Energy Week: 3/30/17

A conservative is pushing for a carbon tax. Donald Trump has okayed the Keystone XL pipeline and is doing away with . . .

Energy Week: 3/23/17

Donald Trump is proposing deep cuts for the EPA and DOE programs. Other cuts include supports for out-of-work miners. . . .

Energy Week: 3/16/17

Elon Musk offered to fix South Australia's grid problems with a $300 million battery; Tesla would do the job in 100 . . .

Energy Week: 3/9/17

Oil companies are giving up on Canadian tar sands. After years of drought, California is getting much too much rain. . . .

Energy Week: 3/2/17

 The Standing Rock protest has been cleared. California has the largest chemical battery in the world. A study says . . .

Energy Week: 2/23/17

A new Drive train for delivery vans reduces fuel requirements to 20% or less of what they were. Cities are going 100% . . .

Energy Week: 2/16/17

Seattle cut ties with Wells Fargo because of the Dakota Access Pipeline. A lot of wind power was installed last year. . . .

Energy Week: 2/9/17

Solar power costs are falling. The US DOE's Sunshot initiave to reduce the cost of solar was started in 2011 with a . . .

Energy Week: 2/2/17

Renewable energy shows great jobs growth in the United States and worldwide. The Trump administration is working to . . .

Energy Week: 1/26/17

China is building lots of solar, but almost no nuclear plants. The first 1.5 GW of a huge windfarm in Wyoming has been . . .

Energy Week: 1/19/17

Researchers say the Northeast is warming faster than other states in the Lower 48. Governor Cuomo is calling for a . . .

Energy Week: 1/12/17

One of the world’s largest ocean circulation systems may not be as stable as believed. Tesla is mass producing . . .

Energy Week Extra: The Top Stories of 2016

Top stories of 2016: Solar Impulse II finished a flight around the world powered by sunlight. Half our nuclear plants . . .

Energy Week: 1/5/17

Solar power is the least expensive available in many places. A road in France is paved with solar cells. . . .

Energy Week: 12/22/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Middlebury College is 100% carbon neutral. Arctic ice is melting . . .

Energy Week: 12/15/16

Tom and George talk about energy, climate change, and increasing levels of folly from Donald Trump. Twenty-one . . .

Energy Week: 12/8/16

OPEC is limiting output, providing no one cheats, which they always do. Alberta is auctioning wind power and paying . . .

Energy Week: 12/1/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Donald Trump contradicts himself. The renewable energy, even with . . .

Energy Week: 11/21/16

Tom and George continue the conversation on Energy. China has responded to Donald Trump's assertion that climate . . .

Energy Week: 11/17/16

Tesla's batteries just got more powerful, without a price hike. Analysts say Trump cannot stop action on climate . . .

Energy Week: 11/10/16

TransCanada's hydro dams on the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers are being sold. VW got caught cheating on emissions, . . .

Energy Week: 11/3/16

Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, largely because of fossil fuels. Iberdrola Renewables is . . .

Energy Week: 10/27/16

Next Kraftwerke is running a virtual power plant. Fitch Ratings and Bloomberg foresee a meltdown in the oil and gas . . .

Energy Week: 10/20/16

A huge 15 GW of embedded power awaits connection in the UK. SolarReserve wants to build a solar project in the desert . . .

Energy Week: 10/13/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. The Paris COP21 agreement is now international law, possibly due . . .

Energy Week Extra: SEON's Sustainable Home Tour

Guy Payne of SEON joins Tom and George to talk about the October 15 Sustainable Home Tour.

Energy Week: 10/6/16

Some golden eagles have thrived while living in wind farms. The UK has signed a contract for the Hinkley C nuclear . . .

Energy Week: 9/29/16

George and Tom talk about energy and climate change. A $11.8 billion market for biogas is hidden in plain sight. Lake . . .

Energy Week: 9/22/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. On average, costs of renewable power have dropped below those of . . .

Energy Week: 9/15/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. An irrevocable change is happening moving us to renewable energy. . . .

Energy Week: 9/8/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Costa Rica just keeps running on renewable power, it has gone . . .

Energy Week: 9/1/16

Cost Rica has gone 113 days without using fossil fuels to generate electricity. Crystal Serenity, a passenger ship is . . .

Energy Week: 8/25/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Wind and solar generated electricity are hitting record low . . .

Energy Week: 8/16/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. A schoolgirl has invented a super absorbent polymer made from . . .

Energy Week: 8/11/16

Apple will sell electricity, and Australia will have the world's largest microgrid. Nuclear power is losing money . . .

Energy Week 8/4/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Politics, at both the state and national levels, gets some . . .

Energy Week: 7/28/16

Tom and George present news they can about energy and climate change. Entergy is supporting those in New York who wish . . .

Energy Week 7/21/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Batteries may get the same renewable incentives as solar power. . . .

Energy Week: 7/14/16

Tom and George continue the conversation on climate change and energy. Offshore wind power costs are going down, as . . .

Energy Week: 7/7/16

Tom and George continue talking about energy and the environment. The time for the baseload power plant paradigm is . . .

Energy Week: 6/30/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Solar Impulse 2 landed in Spain, after crossing the Atlantic on . . .

Energy Week Extra: Wind power

George and Tom talk about wind power and conspiracy theories. 

Energy Week: 6/23/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Three nuclear reactors have been scheduled by their owners to . . .

Energy Week: 6/16/16

The US got 19.2% of its electricity from renewable sources in March. Bloomberg says we are nearing peak fossil fuels . . .

Energy Week: 6/9/16

Tom and George talk about microgrids and batteries, fossil fuels and nuclear power, climate change and droughts. . . .

Energy Week: 6/2/16

Tom and George talk about climate change and renewable energy. 8.1 million people are employed in renewable power . . .

Energy Week: 5/26/16

Renewable energy is setting new records. Nuclear power is looking for handouts. The cost of oil and gas is expected to . . .

Energy Week: 5/19/16

Climate change has been happening faster since 1998, despite what some politicians say. Nuclear power plant owners are . . .

Energy Week: 5/12/16

George and Tom talk about energy and climate change. There has been a major fire in Alberta, causing 88,000 of . . .

Energy Week: 5/5/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Renewable generation accounted for 98.6% of all new capacity in . . .

Energy Week: 4/28/16

Talking about energy and climate change, we start with suspension of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, bankruptcy for . . .

Energy Week Extra: Sustainable Energy Funding Program

Larry Sprague of the Sustainable Energy Funding Program talks about their work of putting funding together with . . .

Energy Week: 4/21/16

Tom and George are joined by guest Larry Sprague of the Sustainable Energy Funding Program in discussing the week's . . .

Energy Week 4/14/2016

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Wind and solar power are crushing the fossil fuel industry. The . . .

Energy Week: 4/7/16

Solar and wind power have far more potential to supply the country's demand than what we need. Tesla has pre-sold . . .

Energy Week: 3/31/16

China is not only shutting down old coal-burning power plants, it is stopping building new ones. An inexpensive new . . .

Energy Week: 3/24/16

Atmospheric carbon dioxide has gone to new heights, and February had the most abnormally high temperatures on record. . . .

Energy Week: 3/17/16

George is joined by guest Sean Auth for this week's show. Among the topics covered are a possible increase in the . . .

Energy Week 3/10/16

Tom and George talk about the news of climate change and energy. A trainload of snow had to be shipped to Anchorage . . .

Energy Week: 3/3/16

Tom and George talk about methane emissions and a crashing oil and gas industry, new laws and old coal plants, . . .

Energy Week: 2/25/16

It's official - NASA says 2015 was the hottest year on record. Austria is building virtual power plants. Al Gore is . . .

Energy Week: 2/18/16

George and Tom talk about the US Supreme Court and the CLean Power Plan. Solar power is hitting grid parity in nearly . . .

Energy Week: 2/11/16

Tom and George talk about the oil glut and its causes, low oil prices, high oil inventories, and a declining industry. . . .

Energy Week Extra: Greater Good Energy Solutions

Shavon Prophet and Steve Sapowski of Greater Good Energy Solutions join Tom and George to talk about solar thermal . . .

Energy Week: 2/4/16

Tom and George are joined by guests Shavon Prophet and Steve Sapowski. They all talk more about a glacier that melted . . .

Energy Week: 1/28/16

Tom and George talk about the decline of Arctic ice and the fall of the price of oil. Birds are dying because of . . .

Energy Week: 1/21/16

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. The week's news includes much about falling prices of oil and . . .

Energy Week: 1/14/16

There is a methane emergency in California. SolarFest is coming back. The London Array set new production records. . . .

Energy Week Extra: The Top Stories of 2015

George and Tom are back for the annual 'Best of' edition of Energy Week as they gather their top picks for . . .

Energy Week: 1/7/16

Tom and George talk about the new on energy and climate change for the past two weeks. China has provided power for . . .

Energy Week: 12/22/15

Tom and George talk about the news of energy and climate chage. Congress extended tax credits for solar and wind . . .

Energy Week: 12/17/15

George and Tom talk about energy and climate chage. The results of the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) are a subject . . .

Energy Week Extra: Walter Gustafson of VPIRG

Walter Gustafson of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG) joins Tom Finnell and George Harvey, talking . . .

Energy Week: 12/10/15

Tom and George host Walter Gustafson from VPIRG talking about energy, climate change, and the action at the Paris . . .

Energy Week Extra: Sascha Deri of altE Store

Sascha Deri, co-founder and CEO of altE Store, talks with George about enery, climate change, batteries, solar power, . . .

Energy Week: 12/3/15

George and guest Sascha Deri of altE Store talk about climate change and energy. Subjects range from rocket stoves to . . .

Energy Week: 11/25/15

Tom and George continue the discussions on energy and climate change. Green Mountain Power has hit its net metering . . .

Energy Week: 11-25-2015

Tom and George continue the discussions on energy and climate change. Green Mountain Power has hit its net metering . . .

Energy Week: 11/19/15

George and Tom talk more about climate change and energy. The UK is supporting fracking and nuclear. The US Senate . . .

Energy Week: 11/12/15

George and Tom talk about climate change and energy. We celebrate the 50th anniversary of when scientists presented . . .

Energy Week: 11/5/15

BCTV's Roland Boyden subs in for George on this edition of Energy Week, joining Tom to talk about Wind Power . . .

Energy Week: 10/29/15

Tom and George talk about the news of energy and climate change. Melting permafrost is creating "drunken forests." . . .

Energy Week: 10/22/15

George and Tom talk about energy and climate change. The UK is subsidizing nuclear power, ignoring the fact that free . . .

Energy Week: 10/15/15

Tom and George talk about the troubles of coal companies, Scottish wind turbines, natural gas, nuclear power, and more.

Energy Week: 10/9/15

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. The coal industry is in deep decline, and the oil and gas . . .

Energy Week Extra: Solaflect 10/1/15

Jonathan Teller-Elsberg joins Tom and George to talk about an innovative solar photovoltaic system designed and . . .

Energy Week: 10/1/15

George and Tom talk about news of energy and climate change. There is more about deception at Volkswagen. And there is . . .

Energy Week: 9/24/15

Tom and George talk about developments in the news on energy and climate change. This was a week with a theme, which . . .

Energy Week: 9/17/15

Big changes have happened in Australia. Ohio business want a return to state support for renewables. Steven Strong's . . .

Energy Week: 9/10/15

George and Tom talk about the woes of the coal industry, the cost of transmission lines, spikes wholesale power prices . . .

Energy Week: 9/3/15

Tom and George talk about energy politics and its effects on the rest of the world. Another subject is a new kind of . . .

Energy Week: 8/27/15

Tom and George talk once again about energy and climate change. Islamic leaders call for work on climate change and . . .

Energy Week: 8/20/15

Tom and George talk about the ins and outs of energy and climate change. Among the topics are wireless charging lanes . . .

Energy Week: 8/13/15

George and Tom talk about the Clean Power Plan, political candidates, a new Vermont wind farm, anaerobic digesters, . . .

Energy Week: 8/6/15

Tom and George talk about one nuclear plant that might close, another that will probably never be built, a faltering . . .

Energy Week: 7/30/15

Tom and George talk about energy and climate change. Among the things discussed are a small biomass plant for combined . . .

Energy Week: 7/23/15

Tom and George talk about the number of climate deniers MSNBC found in a poll of climate scientists (4 out of 17,000), . . .

Energy Week: 7/16/15

Tom and George explore this week's energy and climate news: Wildfires, caused by hot and dry weather, have plagued . . .

Energy Week: 7/9/15

Tom and George talk about the news of energy. Whether it is solar, wind, biodigesters, or coal-burning dinosaurs, . . .

Energy Week: 7/2/2015

Tom and George talk with guests Daniel Hoviss, Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, and Katrina Wilson about the energy news of . . .

Energy Week Extra: Solarize Dummerston 7/2/15

Tom and George host guests from Solarize Dummerston. They include Daniel Hoviss, of Solarize Dummerston; Jonathan . . .

Energy Week 6/25/2015

George and Tom talk about the Pope, Lake Mead, health issues resulting from climate change, the politics of the United . . .

Energy Week: 6/18/15

Tom and George bring the news of energy and climate change. More and more countries are signing up to be part of the . . .

Energy Week Extra: Turning Point Gratitude Project - Permaculture

Guests Cimbria Badenhausen, Susan Walker, and Jedediah Popp talk about permaculture, sustainability, and the earth, . . .

Energy Week: 6/11/15

Tom and George talk about farms of floating offshore wind turbines for Hawai'i, huge orders for the Tesla Powerpack . . .

Energy Week Extra: Chris Martenson and Peak Prosperity

Guest Chris Martenson tells Tom and George about dangers to the electromagnetic grid, the economy, and our way of . . .

Energy Week: 6/4/15

Tom and George talk about climate change and energy. In this week's show, we see Big Oil admit climate change is real . . .

Energy Week Extra: Brattleboro Solar Summer 5/28/15

George and Tom are joined by Paul Cameron, Brattleboro's Energy Coordinator, in a discussion of Brattleboro Solar . . .

Energy Week: 5/28/15

Tom and George talk about the news of the week. The oil minister of Saudi Arabia says his country will switch to 100% . . .

Energy Week Extra: Northeast Biodiesel and Coop Power 5/21/15

Guests Diego Angarita and Phil Cherry join Tom and George to discuss Greenfield's Coop Power and its new biodiesel . . .

Energy Week 5/21/2015

Tom and George talk about a range of things from Tesla's batter to a ferry boat in Norway. Two guests join us from . . .

Energy Week Extra: Special on Microgrids 5/14/15

Microgrids can give use the power to power ourselves. They can give us security in unsecure times, while helping save . . .

Energy Week: 5/14/15

George and Tom present a week's news in an hour. The world's nations are ahead of schedule preparing for talks on the . . .

Energy Week: 5/7/15

George and Tom talk about General Motors giving up on coal, and solar becoming the least expensive energy source for . . .

Energy Week 4/30/15

Here is this week's look at the world's energy news. New battery technology, new microgrids, and new data about the . . .

Energy Week 4/23/15

Tom Finnell and George Harvey speak to the ins and outs of energy news. Big businesses are getting involved in climate . . .

Energy Week 4/16/15

Tom Finnell and George Harvey review the world of energy once more. This time they have a lot of help from Michael . . .

Energy Week: 4/9/15

Tom and George examine the deep inner meanings of energy trends in a changing world, and come up laughing. Vermont . . .

Energy Week: 4/2/15

Tom and George try to keep up with the latest events in the world of energy and climate change. This week, we see . . .

Energy Week: 3/26/15

You can watch the coal industry begin to unravel and hear projections of doom and gloom for the whole fossil fuels . . .

Energy Week: 3/19/15

George and Tom chronicle the changing times, in which humble home solutions to personal energy problems are becoming a . . .

Energy Week: 3/12/15

George and Tom continue their romp through the news of Energy and Climate Change with a list of over twenty news . . .

Energy Week 3/5/15

Keeping a careful eye on some of the most exciting developments in history, Tom Finnell and George Harvey gab, laugh, . . .

Energy Week 2/26/15

Energy, climate change, the state of the nation, science, and the US Navy are all subjects of discussion, as George . . .

Energy Week: 2/19/15

Once more, George and Tom take a look at the exciting news relating to energy and climate change for the week. They . . .

Energy Week: 2/12/15

Reporting on the woes of Global Warming and the War Against Renewable Power, Tom and George again laugh at danger and . . .

Energy Week: 2/5/15

Cruising through the news on energy and the climate, George Harvey and Tom Finnell look closely at the most difficult . . .

Energy Week: 1/29/15

Tom Finnell and George Harvey reveal the innermost workings of the world of energy. Used car batteries will one day be . . .

Energy Week: 1/22/15

News on energy and climate change, in which George gets passionate about politics and Tom looks on and laughs.

Energy Week: 1/15/15

An hour dealing with a week's news about energy, renewable power, and sustainable living in the 21st century. We track . . .

Energy Week: 1/8/15

George Harvey and Tom Finnell are back for another hour analyzing the news on energy, climate change, and global . . .

Energy Week Extra: The Top 20 Stories of 2014

George and Tom take a romp through the top twenty energy stories of 2014. These are the big stories that impact the . . .

Energy Week: 1/2/15

George Harvey and Tom Finnell take a look at the week's news on Energy and Climate Change. In only one hour, George . . .

Energy Week: 12/23/14

George Harvey and Tom Finnell cover the week's news on energy and climate change, drawing the conclusion that the . . .

Energy Week 12/18/14

George Harvey and Tom Finnell deal with the complexities of climate change, plunging oil prices, environmental damage, . . .

Energy Week: 12/11/14

Tom Finnell and George Harvey record the fall of the fossil fuel industry on a day-by-day basis, with much mirth in . . .

Energy Week: 12/4/14

Tom Finnell and George Harvey talk about amazing events in the week's news for energy and global warming. 

Energy Week Extra: Thomas Fricke 11/26/14

Tom and George talk with Brattleboro resident Thomas Fricke, who operates an amazing sustainable business on the other . . .

Energy Week: 11/26/14

Tom and George are back with a new batch of news. Different sources say different things. Fox News says renewable . . .

Energy Week: 11/20/14

Keystone XL was blocked - for now. The fund that funded Solyndra is making the taxpayer money. China has committed to . . .

Energy Week: 11/13/14

Tom Finnell is back! And with his recovery of his health, Energy Week can recover from its humorless doldrums!

Energy Week: 11/6/14

Host George Harvey sums up the week's energy-related news from across the globe, with a look at the future of EVs . . .

Energy Week: 10/30/14

George Harvey is back for another edition of his weekly talk show, summarizing a week's worth of headlines from . . .

Energy Week: 10/23/14

Join host George Harvey as he culls down more than a thousand energy-related articles from the previous week into a . . .

Energy Week: 10/16/14

Join Energy Week host George Harvey as he tackles another week's worth of Energy related headlines from all accross . . .

Energy Week: 10/9/14

Join hosts George and Tom as they cull through another week's worth of energy-related headlines from across the globe, . . .

Energy Week Extra: Bensonwood 10/2/14

Engineers Chris and Rheannon of the custom timberframe design firm Bensonwood Inc present on how the company is . . .

Energy Week: 10/2/14

Joined by custom timberframe pioneers Bensonwood engineers Chris and Rheannon, Energy Week hosts George and Tom work . . .

Energy Week Extra: NE Coalition 9/25/14

Ned Childs and Clay Turnbull of the nuclear-free affinity group the New England Coalition join George and Tom in this . . .

Energy Week: 9/25/14

Ned Childs and Clay Turnbull of the nuclear-free affinity group the New England Coalition join George and Tom in going . . .

Energy Week Extra: Community Wind 9/18/14

Local Eco-Engineer Tad Montgomery joins the Energy Week crew for an hour-two special to discuss the Solarize Windham . . .

Energy Week: 9/18/14

Making his second appearance on the program local Eco-Engineer Tad Montgomery joins the Energy Week crew in going . . .

Energy Week: 9/11/14

Join hosts George Harvey and Tom FInnell as they break down a week's worth of energy-related news from across the . . .

Energy Week: 9/4/14

Hosts George Harvey and Tom Finnell are back for another week of energy-related headlines from across the . . .

Energy Week Extra: Nuclear Waste Special 8/28/14

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Staff Physicist Steve Reucroft and Alex Fay of the NPPP (Nuclear . . .

Energy Week: 8/28/14

George Harvey breaks down another week of energy-related news from across the globe, this time with the help of CERN . . .

Energy Week Extra: Windham County Senate Candidates (D) - 8/21/14

Democratic Senate hopefuls for Windham County join George and Tom for this special second-hour special of 'Energy . . .

Energy Week: 8/21/14

Energy Week hosts George Harvey and Tom Finnell are joined by area healthcare guru Jown Bownman as they look through . . .

Energy Week Extra: Tad Montgomery - 8/14/14

Local Eco-Engineer Tad Montgomery joins the Energy Week crew in this hour-two special as they break down the myths and . . .

Energy Week: 8/14/14

Local Eco-Engineer Tad Montgomery joins the Energy Week crew in going through a week's worth of news from around the . . .

Energy Week Show and Tell: 8/7/14

Join hosts George Harvey and Tom Finnell for this hour-two special of their popular weekly talk show highlighting the . . .

Energy Week: 8/7/14

Energy Week hosts George Harvey and Tom Finnell pack another hour full of the week’s biggest energy headlines from . . .